{"id":1103,"date":"2019-10-29T08:45:39","date_gmt":"2019-10-29T08:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eng.kongra-star.org\/?p=1103"},"modified":"2025-03-27T10:21:10","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T10:21:10","slug":"people-of-heseke-we-wont-leave-our-land-to-the-occupiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kongra-star.org\/eng\/2019\/10\/29\/people-of-heseke-we-wont-leave-our-land-to-the-occupiers\/","title":{"rendered":"People of Hesek\u00ea: We won\u2019t leave our land to the occupiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-content\">\n<p class=\"entry-lead\">A powerful demonstration against the Turkish invasion of Rojava took place in the north-eastern Syrian city of Hesek\u00ea. The participants repeatedly expressed loudly that they would only accept the SDF as a defensive force.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-header\">\n<div class=\"entry-thumbnail\"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">In the city of Hesek\u00ea, north-eastern Syria, almost the entire population of the city took to the streets on Monday to protest against the invasion of NATO partner Turkey and its jihadist mercenary army in Rojava. Activists of the Kurdish women&#8217;s umbrella organisation Kongreya Star, members of the Syrian Democratic Council (MSD), representatives of civil society and teachers and their pupils also took part in the powerful demonstration.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-content\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>The people repeatedly expressed loudly that they would only accept the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) as a defensive force. &#8220;If necessary, we will move to the fronts and fight alongside the SDF fighters*,&#8221; demonstrators declared.<\/p>\n<p>The march led through the centre of Hesek\u00ea. In a speech SDF fighter Soz\u00ea Qami\u015flo explained: &#8220;The invaders know only too well who we are. We are the rightful inhabitants of these regions and have sacrificed thousands of martyrs for their defence. And also in this moment it is again the revolutionary women under whose leadership a great resistance is mounted in Ser\u00eakaniy\u00ea.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In her speech, Soz\u00ea Qami\u015flo also pointed out that all components of the population of Northern and Eastern Syria participate in the resistance against the occupation. &#8220;For this reason, I remember with respect and gratitude those who gave their lives in the struggle alongside the Kurdish people&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The demonstration ended with slogans signaling that the joint resistance for Rojava would continue until the liberation of all regions in Northern and Eastern Syria.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A powerful demonstration against the Turkish invasion of Rojava took place in the north-eastern Syrian city of Hesek\u00ea. The participants repeatedly expressed loudly that they would only accept the SDF as a defensive force. In the city of Hesek\u00ea, north-eastern Syria, almost the entire population of the city took to the streets on Monday to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1104,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-article"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kongra-star.org\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kongra-star.org\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kongra-star.org\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kongra-star.org\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kongra-star.org\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kongra-star.org\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1105,"href":"https:\/\/kongra-star.org\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103\/revisions\/1105"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kongra-star.org\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kongra-star.org\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kongra-star.org\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kongra-star.org\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}